The new analytics system in Cloudera Navigator shows the distribution of data along various metadata dimensions and supports interactive filtering and grouping with a simple point-and-click interface. This new functionality a great complement to Cloudera Navigator’s search capabilities and is integrated with Navigator’s policy engine, so you can easily understand the impact of data management policies before applying them to your data.

With the proliferation of Apache Hadoop deployments, more and more customers are looking to reduce operational overheads in their enterprise data warehouse (EDW) installations by exploiting low-cost, highly scalable, open source SQL-on-Hadoop frameworks such as Impala and Apache Hive. Processing portions of SQL workloads better suited to Hadoop on these frameworks,

Kudu (currently in beta), the new storage layer for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, is tightly integrated with Impala, allowing you to insert, query, update, and delete data from Kudu tablets using Impala’s SQL syntax, as an alternative to using the Kudu APIs to build a custom Kudu application. In addition, you can use JDBC or ODBC to connect existing or new applications written in any language,

Thanks to Michal Malohlava, Amy Wang, and Avni Wadhwa of H20.ai for providing the following guest post about building ML apps using Sparkling Water and Apache Spark on CDH.

The Sparkling Water project is nearing its one-year anniversary, which means Michal Malohlava, our main contributor, has been very busy for the better part of this past year. The Sparkling Water project combines H2O machine-learning algorithms with the execution power of Apache Spark.

Big Industries, Cloudera systems integration and reseller partner for Belgium and Luxembourg, has developed an integration of Apache Mesos and CDH that can be deployed and managed through Cloudera Manager. In this post, Big Industries’ Rob Gibbon explains the benefits of deploying Mesos on your cluster and walks you through the process of setting it up.

[Editor’s Note: Mesos integration is not currently supported by Cloudera, thus the setup described below is not recommended for production use.]